Saturday, November 8, 2014

In Praise of Sir Winston

Boris Johnson, the mayor of London and possibly a future Prime Minister of the U.K., writes an appreciation of Sir Winston Churchill for The Wall Street Journal. In most ways it is excellent and I enjoyed it.

If I have two criticisms of the article, it is first that he includes almost none of the great man's wonderful quotations. Second, writing for an American publication, he fails to mention that Winston's beautiful and supportive mother Jennie was an American heiress.